Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)

Palangka Raya the Capital City of Indonesia: Critical Discourse Analysis on News about Moving the Capital City from Jakarta

Authors
Dwiani Septiana, Sumarlam Sumarlam
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Dwiani Septiana
Available Online November 2018.
Keywords
Palangka Raya; new capital city; online news; critical discourse analysis; news text
Abstract

Palangka Raya was planned as the capital city of Indonesia long time ago by the first president of Indonesia, Soekarno. Since Jokowi became the President, he brings back again the issue about moving the capital city of Indonesia from Jakarta. He hasn’t mentioned any specific place as the new capital city, and he only said that moving the capital city from Jakarta is still in the study stages. This statement automatically gains vast attention from the media, especially online media. Hundreds of news, comments from experts, government, and from local people about this issue spread in media. The media then construct the news about Palangka Raya as the new capital city of Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to analyze news text published by national media online about the issue on moving the capital city to Palangka Raya. The analysis grounded in Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis approach as a major theory. The analysis uses the text description, discourse practice (interpretation), and social practice (explanation). The description of the text will show the news text structure, the title of the news, the orientation, the sequence of even, and the closing part. The main theme in the news text is moving the capital city to Palangka Raya as the response from journalists on Jokowi statement about the study in moving the capital city from Jakarta. The grammatical analysis will focus on the words chosen by the journalists in the news text that represents their ideology. The interpretation analysis will show what the issue was, who was involved in that issue, what the relationship is and what the role of the language in the news text. The explanation analysis shows the situation when the issue about moving the capital city to Palangka Raya become the headline in the media online and the influence of the institution (government, experts, local people) to the production of the text.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2018
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2352-5398
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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